Folding-guide for sewing-machines.



- No. 702,50. Patented June I7, 1902;

- c. L. .WEATHE BWAX. FOLDING GUIDE FOB SEWING MAGHINES.

(Applicajzim: filed May 17, 1898.)

-(N0 Model.)

UNITE STATES PATENT FFICE.

OHARLES L. WEATHERIVAX, OF ST, LOUIS,MISSOURI, ASSIGN OR TO THE -UNION SPECIAL SEWING MAOHINE COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS,

A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

FOLDING-GUIDE FOR SEWING-MACHINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 702,512, dated June 1?7, 1902. Application filed May 17, 1898. Serial No. 680,967- (No model.) v

T0 at whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES L. WEATHER-- WAX, a citizen of the United States, residing at St. Louis,in.the Stateof Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Attachment-Holders for Sewing Machines, of which the following is a desfcrip tion, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the figures of reference marked thereon. I

My invention relates to an improvement in sewing-machines, and especially to folding devices therefor.

The object of my invention is especially to provide, in connection with acylinder or horn machine, an arrangement of folders whereby, first, in the use of one part of the device a tube, such as the sleeve of a coat, may be folded with a left-hand fold and sewed and then by the use of the other part of the folder another tube needing a right-hand fold-may be sewed. Thus on the same machine right and left hand sleeves may beapplied to a garment by simply bringing one or the other folder in position, in one case the garment itself being slipped on the tube and in the other case the sleeve.

a The invention therefore consists of the combination, with a sewing-machine, of right and left hand folders pivotally attached to the machine-frame and adapted to be swung down into operative position with relation to the needles, in the one case the outer edge of the folder being slightly beyond the line of the outerneedle, while in the other case the outer edge of the folder is beyond the line of the inner needle.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a front view of a portion of a sewing-machineembodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a detail showing the attachment of the folders to themachine.

In the drawings the machine illustrated is of the well-known Union Special cylinderbed type, as shown in Patent No. 547,675, granted Lansing Onderdonk October 8; 1895. The needles represented are two in number and set obliquely to each other respecting the line of the seam and cooperating with two under-thread carrying loopers.

The bed plate or cylinder of the machine is marked in the drawings 1, the overhanging arm or gooseneck 2, and the outer needle 3 and the inner needle 4:. Attached by set-screws 5i200l16gSld0 ofthe depending arm of the gooseneckis a bracket6, upon which is pivoted the arm 7, adj ustably supporting the arm or plate 8, upon the lower end of which is formed the folding-guide 9, which may be of the usual construction. This is the left-hand folder, and when swung out of position the sleeve of a coat or other garment may be placed upon the cylinder, the folder swung to position, and the'left-hand fold formed on it, the outer edge of the folder being beyond the linedefined by the outer needle-punctures, sothat the fold of the sleeve and'the :body ofthe garment may be caught by both rows of stitching.

Similarly attached to the opposite side of the depending arm pivoted on the bracket 6 is the right-hand folding-guide 10.; The two folding-guides are used separately, and the outer edge of the right-hand folding-guide is slightly beyond the line defined by the inner needle-punctures. It will be noticed that these folder-supporting arms:

7 are so arranged and pivoted on the plate or bracket 6 that as they swing upwardly they move outwardly away from the line of feed, this result being accomplished by outwardly bending the ends 11 of the bracket 6 and'pivoting the arms 7 thereto and bending the said arms 7 at the points 12, so that the lower parts of the arms 7 are bent out ofparallelism with the upper parts thereof. The bracket 6 has its side walls 13 andl t-downwardl'y'converging, as shown, to firmly grasp the head of the machine.

Havingthus described my invention, what .90

I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is'- 1. In a sewing-machine having a suitable bed-plate, and stitch-forming mechanism,tw0 independently-movable folding-guides, one right hand and one left hand, pivotally attached to the machine-frame and adapted to be swung down alternately into operative position with relation to the stitch-formin g mechanism, substantially as described.

2. In a sewing-machine, having a cylindrical bed-plate, upwardly and outwardly swinging independently-movable foldingguides one right hand and one left hand pivoted to the machine-frame and adapted alternately to be swung down into operative position with relation to the stitch-forming mechanism, whereby tubular fabrics with either right or left hand folds may be sewed on the machine, substantially as described.

3. In a sewing-machine having two needles and compleniental stitch-forming mechanism, and a presser-foot, two alternating swinging folders, one right hand and one left hand, pivotally attached to the machine-frame and adapted'to be swung down into operative position with relation to the needles,the outer edge of one folder when in position being slightly at one side of said needles While when the other folder is swung into position its outer edge is slightly at the other side of said needles, whereby said folders when in operative position will occupy substantially the same position relatively to the needles; substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES L. \VEATHERVAX.

Witnesses:

J OI-IN M. MACFARLAND, CHAS. I'I. KING. 

